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PTA Reflections Contest - Entries Due October 7th

"Diversity means..."

Unleash your artistic talents through the 2011-­2012 PTA Reflections program! The National PTA believes all children deserve a quality arts education and encourages students to pursue artistic expression through participation in its annual arts Reflections program.

The program offers students the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recognition.

The Reflections deadline for this year is October 7th! Entry forms and Reflections rules are available here or you can download the general rules here. 

Specific Category rules can be downloaded at the following link:  http://ptareflections.org/cs/rules_and_documents

Make sure you complete the Student Entry Form & include it with your entry!  Download 2011_Student Entry Form

For questions or more information, please contact the
Sope Creek PTA Reflections Committee: 
Deb Papenhagen (papenhagendeb@yahoo.com) or
Wendy Walden,(wendywalden@hotmail.com).

 

Reminders:

• Send in your pictures or your money or any combination of these.
• Get your child's armband for the Octoberfest this Saturday.
• Check out our class pumpkin for the auction created by Maggie's mom. Thank you so much!
• Return the conference note that came home this week...Front AND Back! I want to make it convenient for you!

Keep up the great participation on IXL.  They're doing a great job. The students are doing well with the spelling lists and everyone had their homework in on time Friday morning. Go Dalmatians!

Math- We started chapter 5 this week...it is a continuation on subtraction, using various strategies to solve subt. problems.  If your child is struggling in the area, please work with them at home.  We played our first game of Subtraction "Around the World" and they did a great job with this!  Practice those subtraction facts 0-10 in order to do well on this.

We'll be learning how to take the COGAT at a practice session on Friday morning. The test is next week(Wednesday-Friday) and you can help by having your child get a good night's rest, eat a breakfast with some protein(and a Drink), and have a stress-free morning during the 3 days of testing. That is how you can help your child do his personal best.

Social Studies- We're having a great time learning all about our first American hero, Ben Franklin. Please ask your children to tell you some of his inventions or some of his contributions that he made to our country.

Thank You - Goes to Rylan's mom for coming in as my Helper parent this week...she really did a lot to help me out and the class!  Also, our student from Kennesaw, Miss Keller, put everything together for us to make a Ben Franklin project for next week!  Thank you goes out to Nathan's mom for coming in as our story parent this week!  I appreciate all that you all do for us!!  Have a great Weekend and I hope to see everyone at the Octoberfest on Saturday !! :)

Happy Fall Ya'll!

We had another wonderful week at the creek!  I just want to ThankSofia's mom again for doing our Scholastic book order and reading to the class for story parent.  Also, a big Thank you for Maggie's mom for being our Helper parent this week!  Thanks for Nate's mom for doing such a nice job with the Dalmatian Directory too! 

Homework is looking Great!  Our class has accomplished 5,000 math problems on IXL.  On Monday morning, they will send me a list of kids and what skills they have worked on, so if there is one that your child did not do well, on, please review it again and again on the IXL program to see some improvement.   

Our "special treasure" writing workshop went wonderful today!! I was so pleased with all their complete sentences, capital letters and punctuation.  We will continue to work on the writing process next week.  Also, we will be working on making connections with our reading and working on the word families of: -op, -ot, and -og.  Our spelling test are going well.  We will continue to have review words, so don't forget the ones from last week for next week's test.  Also, if your child knows how to tap out the word family words, then they should be able to spell any word from that family.  :)  In math, I handed back the subtraction chapter.  We will have a TEST on that on Monday, so if there are any pages your child struggled with, please go over at home.  We will continue to work on subtraction and skip over to chapter 5 next.  So if your child is still not sure about this skill, we can work on it some more then.

We are wrapping up our Unit on weather and water changes.  Next week we will begin to study of Benjamin Franklin and his accomplishments!  Don't forget, Library day in on Thurs., helper parent on Tues. is Rylan's mom and story parent is Nate's mom on Thurs.  Thanks!!

 
School pictures came home earlier this week.  Please send payment and/or returned photos in by Tues. Sept. 27th.  If you pay on-line, please return the payment envelope with "paid online" written on it.  If you are not purchasing any pictures, just write "no purchase" on the payment envelope and send the photos and envelope back.  You may keep the "Safe kid" photo card for free.  Thanks!

Have a Wonderful FALL weekend!  I love teaching your precious children!! We really have a lot of fun together!! :)

 

Happy Monday Dalmatian Parents,

I hope you all had a glorious weekend...it was Beautiful!!  Week 2 Homework came home today in your child's binder.  Please remember to complete the HW by Friday and turn it in. Let me know if you did not receive it.  I hope the IXL program is working better this week.  It is a great program and I think you will really see some improvement in your child's math skills if you utilize it as much as possible. 

Send in Library books on Thurs. this week.  I will return the Spelling test, etc. to you tomorrow along with the class directories.  Thanks again to Nate's mom for putting them together.  I have Maggie's mom coming in to be Helper parent this week and  Sophie's mom as story parent on Thurs. after lunch.

Have a great week and let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Your children are all improving every day! :)

Octoberfest Bake Sale and Arm Bands

2 Weeks Until Octoberfest!

Want to help by providing something delicious for our bake sale?  Please download the following form to find out how to help with the bake sale!  Download Octoberfest Bake Sale

Watch for armband order forms to come home with students on September 23rd!  Prices: 

• Students:  $10
• Preschoolers/Alumni/High Schoolers:  $5
• Adults and Children under 2:  FREE!
• Family Maximum:  $25

Questions?

• Bake Sale:  Stacy Baca {stacycarl@comcast.net}
• Armbands:  TongSuk Vignone {tvignone@gmail.com}
• General Questions:  Sandy Sweeney {sandyhsweeney@comcast.net}

Happy Friday!!  I hope you all are having a Wonderful day!   We had a great week at the Creek!  Your children are learning so much, so quickly.  We finish our first Math chapter on addition to 10.  Next week, we will begin subtraction 0 to 10.  Our little meteorologist are enjoying learning all about the different types of weather and how to use weather instruments.  If you happen to have a wind vane that works, please let us borrow it for a day or two...ours is not properly working at this time.  Remember to send in the pictures of different types of weather to sort on Monday!  Also, next week we will be making Tornadoes.  Please send in a clean, empty plastic water bottle with screw on top for us to make our individual tornadoes to take home! If any of you cooks out there would like to SURPRISE the kids with a "Thunder Cake" next Friday, please email and let me know you can do this! I have the recipe to go along with the book!  cindy.dingess@cobbk12.org

FYI... Homework will be coming home on Monday.  The children will have 10 spelling words to work with all week.  You chose 3 activities for your child to do on the back...or a separate piece of paper.  Also, they will do 5 min. of IXL Math on the computer.  Please let me know if you do Not have a computer for your child  to do this activity.  As usual, Please Read every night for at least 10-20 min. with your child.  Find books at the public library that your child can read by themselves too!

Library day is on Wed. of next week  Please return those books so they can get new ones!

Please Sign your child's behavior calendar every night.  Soon, I do not expect to fill in a sheet every day for behavior  because they will all know what is expected and make wise choices to do so.  I would only send a note home on a "as needed" basis.  Also, send in a Healthy snack everyday too.  Next week, count your veggies and fruits...see the Sope Creek blog for info about earning prizes!

Please send back the plastic sleeve, the guided reading book and the note each time your child has one in his/her binder/backpack.

Last but not least, Please send in your Boosterthon $$ by Tues. the 13th!!  I told the kids that they would earn a PJ day if they all get it turned in by Tues. 

 

October Volunteer Sign-Up

OCTOBERFEST – 3 weeks to go!

You don’t want to miss this year’s awesome inflatables and rides at Octoberfest!! New this year is the Blazing Mechanical Bull! Come try your hand at hanging on! Back again is the Terrific Titanic Slide, Mutiny on the Bouncer, the Ultimate Obstacle Challenge, Pirate 5-in-1 and the Justice League Double Challenge! Enjoy the train ride, lots of games and an all-time favorite, the Spider Jump!

Parents! We are ready to schedule volunteers to help make Octoberfest a great day! We need your help! Please see the link below to view all activities and times where volunteers are needed. We hope to sign up all volunteers via this website without having the Room Reps recruit you from each class. Please find your favorite activity and preferred time to sign up and help us fill these positions ASAP. Octoberfest is a great success because of you! Thank you for your support!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/octoberfest8
 
Questions? Contact Sandy Sweeney at sandyhsweeney@comcast.net.
 
Don’t miss this great family fun event! 
Saturday, October 1st from 2pm – 6pm